THE THORN

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Amazing.

"Dude, I just saw the most epic fight at the Thorn."
"Oh, what happened?"
"So there was this guy, yeah? He was wearing some scary ******* power armor with lightning arcing over it and carrying a plasma rifle the likes of which I've never seen before. And do you know what he fought? Three Giant Mantises. At once."
"Wow. That sounds...amazing. I can't imagine which one of them won."
"Oh, the dude ended up winning. Weird, right? I was betting on the Mantises."

If you play on Normal or higher and you go there before level 20 you usually deal far less damage than your opponents. I remember I had to hit some dude about 100 times and lost 1/4 of my life if he landed one.

Oh no, it was unbalanced. Damage sponge enemies that kill you extremely quickly isn't difficulty. It's a cheap method of programming that game developers use to give the illusion of difficulty. Difficulty is having strategy to a fight that's hard to pull off: you need to block now, slash here, counter his parry, jump his low attack, attack his exposed point, then wait for the same opening. That's difficulty. You need to keep hitting him for over an hour, and if he hits you, you die. That's not.

I went into the dig sight armed with most dangerous energy weapon in the game and screamed "Oh ****" about 50 times and got killed by the mother deathclaw 10 times before I succeeded in killing her. On the lowest difficulty. I can tell you right now, you can't kill a deathclaw with unarmed punches. IT. JUST. DOESN'T. WORK.

I was actually talking about the alien blaster and its insanely high critical hit rate. It killed the mother deathclaw in 7 hits, two of which were head shots. The only problem with the gun is that the ammo you steal from the alien who has the gun is the only amount of that ammo in the entire game unless you have DLC.

I spent about 4 hours getting that gun. I spotted an elite ranger with it (but I couldn't just straight up kill him because I was NCR sided) so I had to stalk him for hours, then when the moment was right, I pounced.
In the end, I ****** up, the whole NCR hated me, so I reloaded a save and spawned the gun using the console.